Saw-setting gage



(No Model.)

W. SAXE. SAW SETTING GAGE.

Patented Jan. 3, 1893. h

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VILLIAM SAXE, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.'

SAW-SETTI NG GAG E.

V SPECIFICATION forming part of, Letters Patent No. 489,039, dated January 3, 1893.

Application filed August 29, 1892. Serial No. 444,496. (No model-l To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM SAXE, a citiship of Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saw-Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to saw gages for use upon circular saws for indicating and measuring the amount of set or angle of the saw teeth, in which the parts regulating the amount of set are accurately adjustable; and the object of my invention is to provide a saw gage by which the set on both sides of the saw can be gaged and regulated by an instrument placed upon one side of the saw.

The advantages I claim for my invention area-First. The set of the saw teeth can be exactly the same on ,both sides of the saw. Second. The set of the teeth upon both sides of the saw can be gaged without moving the gage. As saw gages have been previously first upon one side of the saw and then upon the other. By my construction the gaging is all done by a gage without moving it to the other side of the saw. Third. My gage is easily adapted to saws of varying thickness; an advantage not secured by any gage heretotore invented. I obtain these objects bythe construction illustrated in the drawings in which Figure 1 shows the front of the saw gage. Fig. 2 is a side view, showing the position of the different parts. Fig. 3 is a rear view.

In Fig. l, A is a plate of metal shaped as indicated in the drawings, and carrying the adjustable plates B and O. B is fastened to A by' means of two bolts a, sliding in slots f, in A as shown bythe dotted lines. Set screws V may be used if preferred. The adjustable plate (1 is secured to A by two set screws Z), penetrating A and passing through slots in C as shown. The scales, d, (1 are stamped upon the plate A. The gage is placed against the side of the saw, the projections e, e resting upon the saw blade. The saw teeth are received in the slot or opening at D.

Fig. 2 shows the relative thickness and proportion of the parts. Fig. 3 is a rear view showingthe nuts upon the bolts, a,a.by which the adjustment of the plate B is controlled with reference to the plate A.

In operation the adjustments of the plates B and C are varied according to the thickness of the saw and the set desired. To insure an equal set upon both sides of the saw the scales d, d are used, and by adjusting the parts with reference to these scales, the set is made equal on both sides of the saw blade with absolute accuracy. As both B and O are adjustable, the teeth can all be gaged with reference to their set in either directionwithout changing the position of the gage from one side of blade to the other.

By the above description it will be seen that I have invented a useful, light and cheap saw having offsets to bear against one side of the saw, and measuring platesadj ustably secured to the base plate and adapted to bear against the opposite sides of the saw.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in 7 presence of two witnesses.

WM. SAXE.

Witnesses? S. A. WOOD, T. H. MILLs. 

